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Definition of Delinquent

Delinquent

  1. Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
  2. One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.

Delinquent Quotations

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank Sinatra

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
Larry Elder

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
Louis de Bernieres
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Delinquent Translations

delinquent in Swedish is brottslighet

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